Readings For IRI Seminars – May 4th, 2019:

What Does It Mean to Be Left? with Stan­ley Aronowitz:
Georg Lukács, His­to­ry and Class Con­scious­ness – What is Ortho­dox Marx­ism? 

Freud and Phi­los­o­phy: Over­com­ing the Self and its apo­r­ias with Michael Pelias:

We will con­tin­ue to engage pages 58 – 159 of Book I and begin Part II,“The Anal­o­gy of Dreams” in Paul Ricoeur’s Freud and Phi­los­o­phy. We will also look this week at Freud’s 1914 work “On Nar­cis­sism”. For those who would like to read ahead, Jacques Lacan’s The Four Fun­da­men­tal Con­cepts of Psy­cho­analy­sis can be found at the pre­ced­ing link.

The Age of Anx­i­ety Co-taught by Peter Brat­sis and Michael Pelias:
Mau­r­izio Lazzarato’s The Mak­ing of the Indebt­ed Man